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Desiring to observe the ionosphere both as a function of time and of frequency, the expedition will take two sets of transmitters with which they hope to gain the desired information. Two 500 watt transmitters, designed to work on four specially assigned frequencies, are equipped to photographically record the ionosphere layer as a function of time, while a variable frequency transmitter, which goes from eight to two megacycles, is also equipped to take pictures of the layer but as a function of frequency...
What is there left? First of all, there is the administration of undergraduate affairs, such as elections, which is carried on by individuals. Secondly, there is the valuable report-making function which is carried on in committees. Thirdly, there is the function as a safety-valve for both University Hall and students in infrequent emergencies which is carried on by the Council as a whole...
...Having cut out many an official function, the President last week inaugurated a new one. He attended for the first time in history the annual dinner of his sub-Cabinet, given at the Willard Hotel. Routine of the Assistant Secretaries' function: no speeches, no ladies, black ties...
...with individual franchises, terminals, routes. Each will continue to act as a separate unit, run only its own busses. But all busses will be painted a common cream & maroon, bear a common name, issue through tickets on each others' lines, will therefore to the public seem identical in function with Greyhound. Only difference will be that Trailway riders will change busses frequently, no great disadvantage because bus riders constantly have to get out anyway...
...Function of the privately endowed university--to introduce educational innovations, to carry on consistent policy, to limit the size of the student body, to disintegrate sectional outlook, to escape political influence which leads to discontinuous policy...